Aircraft Stories - Decentering the Object in Technoscience

Informationen zum Autor John Law Klappentext "What is a military aircraft? John Law shows in his beautiful analysis that it is a constant oscillation between multiplicity and singularity. It (sometimes) flies, it (possibly) drops nuclear bombs, it (certainly) reproduces a very conservative social order, it interpellates and entices young men, and yet it still remains a military aircraft. John Law invents what could be a monadology in which there is no longer preestablished harmony."--Michel Callon, CSI Ecole des mines de Paris Zusammenfassung Tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems! this title explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation! interference! fractionality! and rhizomatic networks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Objects 3. Subjects 4. Cultures 5. Heterogeneities 6. Aesthetics 7. Decisions 8. Arborescences 9. Pinboards Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: John Law, Law, John Law
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2002
• EAN: 9780822328247
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2824-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Science and Cultural Theory; Science and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Militärtechnik, Flugzeuge und Luftfahrt, Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik